June 12, 2011

For nearly a week, the world followed the saga of Amina Arraf, the blogger who was celebrated for her passionate, often intimate writings about the Syrian government’s crackdown on Arab Spring protesters. Those writings stopped abruptly last Monday, and in a posting on her blog, “A Gay Girl in Damascus,” a cousin said Amina had been hauled away by government security agents.

News of her disappearance became an Internet and media sensation. The U.S. State Department started an investigation. But almost immediately skeptics began asking: Had anyone ever actually met Amina? On Wednesday, pictures of her on the blog were revealed to have been taken from a London woman’s Facebook page.

And Sunday, the truth spilled out: The gay girl in Damascus confessed to being a 40-year-old American man from Georgia.

White guys ... What would the world do without us? We're the straw that stirs the drink.

A commenter notes: As Donald Rumsfeld would say, pudgy white American nerd bloggers will stand down when hot lesbian Syrian bloggers are ready to stand up.

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Ive openly wondered how much of the dissaffection behind these 'Arab Spring' uprisings has been inspired by Western astroturf. We weren't beyond throwing sand-in-the-gears back in the Soviet days to undermine a percieved enemy state, so I can't imagine we are shy about pulling the same thing now. I know the neocons wouldn't have any scruples about it.

I love this kid. He seems to be a leftist, what with the Che t-shirt, but he made liberal MSM look completely foolish. Jayson Blair has nothing on this(40 yr old)kid.

Is 40 the new 17, btw?

This is the funniest and most effective--albeit inadvertently--subversion of MSM political correctness since those two white kids pretended to be a pimp and prostitute at the Acorn office.

I can't stop laughing..... just look at the dude's face. WTF. Is he gonna get sued by the woman he lifted the photos from? This should go on Judge Judy.

MSM, which raised a big stink about Sarah Palin's emails, not only came up with no smoking gun against her but now put a gun to its own head and pulled the trigger for having fallen for this hoax for so long.

Well, let's put it this way. What this guy did was still more creative than twittering one's penis.

"On Sunday, MacMaster apologized on the blog. “While the narrative voice may have been fictional, the facts on thıs blog are true and not mısleading as to the situation on the ground,” he wrote. “I do not believe that I have harmed anyone — I feel that I have created an important voice for issues that I feel strongly about.”"

He should go into politics. Or journalism. Or academia. He'll fit right in with the likes of Malcolm Gladwell, Stephen Jay Gould, John Edwards, Barack Obama, etc.

Besides, in this 'gender-bending' age when school kids are told that they can be a boy or a girl or whatever, who's to say this guy isn't an Arab lesbian if he/she feels like it?

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If Obama can 'transcend' race and be everything and nothing, surely a white guy in Georgia can be anyone too in our globalist gaytrix world. Hope means the hope to be anything you wanna be. Change means, well, you can change into whatever you wanna be. This guy should be lauded and made into the posterchild of our globalist pomo-homo age when anything is everything. He had the audacity of hope and the dreams from humanity.

Keep in mind Aaron Sorkin's SOCIAL NETWORK is no less bogus than what this guy did. Sork didn't so much give us Zuckerberg as use him as an avatar to conceal and push through his own personal Jewish neurosis.

Well it was certainly a big surprise to all my Facebook friends, from Warren Buffett to Harrison Ford to Vince Lombardi. We should have recalled the old CompuServe adage of "Guy-in-Disguise-Unless-Proved-Otherwise..."

Wow! I've been reading his/her blog, and I have to say I'm impressed, both by the volume of posts (e.g., nine posts on June 5 and six on June 6) and their creativity. Check out, for example, "Still Sunni After All These Years" (which talks about Islam and "the Anthropomorphic principle") and "My father, the hero".

??? I may just be confused, but I do believe that while I was reading the blog the blog title changed from "A Gay Girl In Damascus" to "A Hoax"! And a new post has shown up, with further apologies and explanations. I wonder how much further this will go?

I've actually known a couple of lesbians from various Muslim cultures. I'm not so certain the "lesbian" part of their behavior is what might get them into trouble. Instead it would be attitudes towards men, drinking alcohol and failing to comply with restrictions on public behavior.

Would that that guy had enough shame at drawing attention to himself with a fraud to hang himself with that Che t-shirt!

Interesting. Usually it is an American leftist that creates an American hoax in which American white guys are the Evil American Male Perpetrators. Here we have a case in which an American leftist created a hoax to bring attention to Evil Muslim Male Perpetrators.

When the American hoaxes are discovered there is always some liberal facesaving when the College President who helped whip up the frenzy says, "OK, it was a hoax, but it was a useful hoax because it whipped up the mob frenzy against white men and they are still the real Perpetrators". Or as it is equivalently excused: "The hoax was good because it raised sensitivity about the issue".

What would cap the climax would be if the Syrians brought a criminal action against the Georgia dude for fomenting race hate. Here he is, a good leftie himself, trying to rescue lesbians in Syria. Now the tables get turned. Perhaps the international criminal court? Maybe the Syrians seeking the Georgia dude's extradition to Syria?

I know AIPAC and other lefties are trying to establish international jurisdiction over race crimes and anti-Semitism. What a wonderful opportunity to actually use those provisions against the very lefties that dreamed them up!

Maybe Steve should filch some photos from facebook and pretend to be a gay black woman. His views might be shown more respect by MSM.

Pretending to be a gay black woman is not enough. He must be pretend to be a physically attractive gay black woman. No way that white dude would have generated the same readership had he used a picture of an ugly Syrian lesbian.

A fully grown adult male graduate of a good university feels the need to pretend to be a non-white lesbian in order to make an impact and be heard in the political conversation. Makes you think. Shows how confused he is or how confused our world is.

What about the much more common phenom of false rape and false hate crimes like nooses, church bombing, graffiti, etc? They seem to do most of the stirring these days.

Hoaxes primarily work on the unthinking and uncritical who desperately wish the world to match a patently inaccurate world view.

Our entire educational system, MSM news and most other mass media constantly prime the masses to fear Nazis and KKKers under every bed. It's the same way the Soviets in their most paranoid era violently raged against the specters of counter revolutionaries and Capitalistic running dogs everywhere by murdering millions.

Do conservative white males perpetuate such hoaxes? I can't image our current environment would allow it and it seems to go against the grain of viewing the world as is (vs as one would like it to be).

Reminds one to be more critical rather than accepting things at face value. Lots of individuals and groups, as well as the government, are out there trying to fool people. This guy found an original angle to carry out a hoax, one that tapped into the needs of many such-minded people. The world has been waiting for all the Arab lesbians to step forward and join the anti-oppressor coalition.

Regarding the Aga Khan, the hereditary leader of Ismaili Muslims, a decent picture of the family is here. This is a wedding with another blonde wife, so the next generation of Ismaili leaders will be even blonder than the last.

It reminds me of the villain in the James Bond movie "Octopussy," who is an Indian prince named Kamal Khan but who is portrayed by...Louis Jourdan.

This reminds me of something: every Chinese American with whom I've ever talked about China defended the Chinese government and its policies from what they perceived to be Western media bias. I don't know for sure who the Chinese "dissidents" are - ethnic minorities agitating for separate states, figments of the NYT's imagination, a little of both - all I know is that none of the real-world Chinese with whom I've spoken about China viewed their motherland and its government the way the NYT always implies that they should view it.

Wait a minute. How do we know Steve is really Steve? Maybe he's really 'Truth' who hijacked photos of some white guy and pretending to be Mr. HBD specialist as a joke. Has any of you actually met 'Steve'?

"White guys ... What would the world do without us? We're the straw that stirs the drink."

What a perverted and twisted loser. And this is what you are proud of, as a white man?

I really doubt Steve was embracing this fraud as Steve's kind of guy, he was just laughing at how is seems to take a white guy to be a really effective Syrian lesbian blogger. To paraphrase Don Rumsfeld, white nerds will stand down when Syrian lesbian bloggers step up.

It's worth thinking about how much the New Left, politcally correct coalition of feminists, gays, the differently coloured etc really depend on the hard work and malice of a set of white Gentile men who still want to do everything in their power to stick it to other white Gentile men. I'm not letting all the other types of people off the hook but it's at least worth a thinking about. How far would the post 1960s cultural revolution gone without such "men"?

>We weren't beyond throwing sand-in-the-gears back in the Soviet days to undermine a percieved enemy state, so I can't imagine we are shy about pulling the same thing now. I know the neocons wouldn't have any scruples about it.<

Go to movements.org and browse around. It's the GHQ of the "Arab Spring" - compososed of every variety of bloodthristy busybodies: straw-stirrers, international activists, would-be cafe Lenins, tikkun olam'ers in heat, "force democracy on the homophobic wogs" types, nation-wreckers, creative destroyers. All these in possession of seemingly unlimited funds and free time. Interesting to trace where it's coming from.

You know, we laugh at this, but it actually says about a lot about human psychology and religious mindset. Though liberals say they're secular, if you ever listen to NPR or BBC or attended liberal gatherings, there is an air of sanctimony--seriousness, commitment to justice and truth, dignity, etc. It's almost like being inside a church. But COMMITMENT to truth is more about emotions than actual truth; also, social 'truth' is defined in terms of a set of values and goals. Since 'gay is good' is one of the great truths of modern liberalism, the commitment to truth in this case wasn't skepticism about the 'gay girl in damascus' but the nobility--hers and ours--in fighting the good fight.

In fact, the liberal 'commitment to truth' can be seen in the hoary mythology of MLK as perfect saint, the cult around Stephen J. Gould, the 'compelling' lifestory of Obama, etc. There's also the Magic Negro icon, a favorite of conservatives too. The complex race history is reduced to Ali-as-hero, a bogus story about Rosa Parks 'just happening to sit on the bus that day'--when it was all pre-planned, and TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD and MISSISSIPPI BURNING. And WWII has been simplified into the 'good war'. And the Hollywood Ten, we've been told were perfectly innocent American patriots hounded by 'paranoids' without a shred of evidence. So much for 'truth'.

The psychology of the willingness of liberals to believe in this 'gay girl' story isn't much different than the psychology of people who claim to see miracles, like image of Jesus on a toast. A mind calibrated to be sanctimonious in one way will readily accept anything that adds to the warm glow.

Though this guy is a real putz, in some ways, he did what St. Paul did. Paul took a story about some Jewish reformer who got killed and spun a whole new fantasy around it. And boy, did it ever take off. So, what we witnessed was, on one level, a hoax. But on another level, it was a new myth in the making. He created his own Anne Frank(who has become the Virgin Mary figure of Holocaustianity).

And he has good company. Lillian Hellman created a totally bogus story about some woman named Julia who supposedly saved Jews and worked for the German underground but was killed by Nazi goons and disappeared. It became a big best seller and was made into a movie, and as a child, I saw it on PBS many times and wept and wept. Then later, I read Paul Johnson's chapter on Hellman in INTELLECTUALS.. and did I feel like donkeyheaded fool.

Steve,I can't ever see women doing this as it would take a special combination of sociopathy, energy, and passion. I can't see other races doing this because it seems kind of aspergery to try to con people for a *good* cause. Generally, women and others who invest in a protracted, long con job will do so only to line their pockets.

On FemX, I wish Half Sigma would tell us what he learned, seriously; not being sarcastic. My advice for the future? Take more pictures in more places! No self-respecting young hot woman would only take a handful of pictures in the span of so many months, ESPECIALLY ONE WHO WAS FINE WITH NUDITY. Facebook has taught us this!

The Arab Springs (not really descriptive) are food riots. The ME imports something like 75% of its food, and about 90% of its cooking oil. Both spiraling upwards as China bids up prices.

What some attention hog posing as a "hot lesbian" (in reality they look like Rosie O'Donnel) doesn't realize is that people in those places will settle things themselves. And it won't be pretty. Brutal hereditary dictatorships replaced by Ultra Jihad.

Lets get real. The Tunisian riots were old-fashioned food riots, against a repressive and hereditary regime. But the rioters are not "longing for democracy" only Jihad and Islamism in a desperate attempt to get something to eat. Same with Egypt, same with Syria (which is using tanks, planes, and artillery against towns near the Turkish border). Turkey is experiencing a mass wave of refugees from Syria, as the regime collapses in spasmodic violence.

The corruption, which kept the regime in power, was unable to handle the need to dial the corruption down to import enough food cheaply to prevent starvation. That's the whole Arab Spring -- food riots at its most basic.

As are the "flash mobs" in Chicago and NYC and elsewhere. No the ghetto is not starving, but all available money goes to food leaving nothing for ipods or ipads. Hence the flash mobs to achieve dominance and loot places.

THis swipple is so classic. He's basically become a kind of "Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus" joke. It's all about "solidarity". He becomes a virtual lesbian from that part of the world the left calls the "other". He stands in solidarity with all the queer Muslims that he imagines would be blogging over their cappuccinos before heading to their queer yoga affinity group if only they were not so voiceless. He dresses in virtual drag to give a voice to the voiceless.

It's my experience that use of the phrase "gay girl" is a dead giveaway that something's strange. Lesbians usually insist acidly on use of the word "lesbian" - as if they belong to a different species.

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